CVE-2024-7254

HIGHNVD 7.57.5
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 2.8% (86th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from NVD CVSS v3
Sources: EPSS, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
7.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 2.8%CVSS: 7.5Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Any project that parses untrusted Protocol Buffers data containing an arbitrary number of nested groups / series of SGROUP tags can corrupted by exceeding the stack limit i.e. StackOverflow. Parsing nested groups as unknown fields with DiscardUnknownFieldsParser or Java Protobuf Lite parser, or against Protobuf map fields, creates unbounded recursions that can be abused by an attacker.

CVSS v3
7.5
EG Score
7.5HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
50
EG Risk 50/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity75% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 7.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation2.8% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
2.8%
EPSS %ILE
86th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (7.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 7.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
7.5 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
2.8% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-18). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

September 19, 2024

Last Modified

September 26, 2025

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Oct 19, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github_commit.
GitHub commit

commit cc8b3483a558 (protocolbuffers/protobuf)

Fix landed in protocolbuffers/protobuf commit cc8b3483a558 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/cc8b3483a5584b3301e3d43d17eb59704857ffaa

Patch Availability(16)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubunturuby-google-protobuf (3.21.12-10ubuntu0.1) @ plucky2026-10-19ubuntu
ubuntupython-protobuf (2.6.1-1.3ubuntu0.1~esm4) @ xenial2026-10-19ubuntu
ubunturuby-google-protobuf (3.21.12-9ubuntu1.1) @ oracular2026-10-19ubuntu
redhateap7-wildfly-0:7.4.24-4.GA_redhat_00002.1.el8eap2026-03-18redhat
redhateap7-wildfly-0:7.4.24-4.GA_redhat_00002.1.el9eap2026-03-18redhat
redhateap7-wildfly-0:7.4.24-4.GA_redhat_00002.1.el7eap2026-03-18redhat
redhatorg.infinispan.protostream/protostream:4.3.7.Final-redhat-000012025-11-10redhat
redhateap7-wildfly-0:7.4.23-5.GA_redhat_00004.1.el9eap2025-11-10redhat
redhatpatch2025-05-14redhat
redhatrhtpa/rhtpa-trustification-service-rhel9:1.2.1-17338269682024-12-17redhat
redhatrhtpa/rhtpa-guac-rhel9:1.2.1-17335751062024-12-17redhat
redhatpatch2024-12-02redhat
redhatpatch2024-11-13redhat
redhatpatch2024-10-14redhat
redhatprotobuf-java2024-10-10redhat
redhatcom.google.protobuf/protobuf2024-10-10redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(9 across 6 ecosystems)
Maven(4)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java4.28.0, 4.28.0-RC1, 4.28.0-RC2, 4.28.0-RC3, 4.28.1
  • every version up to 3.25.5: fixed in 3.25.5
  • 4.0.0-RC1 up to 4.27.5: fixed in 4.27.5
  • 4.28.0-RC1 up to 4.28.2: fixed in 4.28.2
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com.google.protobuf:protobuf-javalite4.28.0, 4.28.0-RC1, 4.28.0-RC2, 4.28.0-RC3, 4.28.1
  • every version up to 3.25.5: fixed in 3.25.5
  • 4.0.0-RC1 up to 4.27.5: fixed in 4.27.5
  • 4.28.0-RC1 up to 4.28.2: fixed in 4.28.2
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com.google.protobuf:protobuf-kotlin4.28.0, 4.28.0-RC1, 4.28.0-RC2, 4.28.0-RC3, 4.28.1
  • every version up to 3.25.5: fixed in 3.25.5
  • 4.0.0-RC1 up to 4.27.5: fixed in 4.27.5
  • 4.28.0-RC1 up to 4.28.2: fixed in 4.28.2
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com.google.protobuf:protobuf-kotlin-lite4.28.0, 4.28.0-RC1, 4.28.0-RC2, 4.28.0-RC3, 4.28.1
  • every version up to 3.25.5: fixed in 3.25.5
  • 4.0.0-RC1 up to 4.27.5: fixed in 4.27.5
  • 4.28.0-RC1 up to 4.28.2: fixed in 4.28.2
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Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
protobuf3.12.4-1 ... 4.0.0~rc2-1 (62 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
protobuf3.21.12-3
  • every version up to 3.21.12-3+deb12u1: fixed in 3.21.12-3+deb12u1
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
protobuf3.21.12-11
  • every version up to 3.21.12-11+deb13u1: fixed in 3.21.12-11+deb13u1
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
protobuf3.21.12-11
  • every version up to 3.21.12-12: fixed in 3.21.12-12
—
RubyGems(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
google-protobuf4.28.0, 4.28.0.rc.1, 4.28.0.rc.2, 4.28.0.rc.3, 4.28.1
  • every version up to 3.25.5: fixed in 3.25.5
  • 4.0.0.rc.1 up to 4.27.5: fixed in 4.27.5
  • 4.28.0.rc.1 up to 4.28.2: fixed in 4.28.2
—

Weakness Classification(3)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(5)

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 35× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 94 of 194 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 6 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 100 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2024-7254?
CVE-2024-7254 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 19, 2024. Any project that parses untrusted Protocol Buffers data containing an arbitrary number of nested groups / series of SGROUP tags can corrupted by exceeding the stack limit i.e. StackOverflow. Parsing nested groups as unknown fields with DiscardUnknownFieldsParser or Java Protobuf Lite parser, or…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2024-7254 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2024-7254 was published on September 19, 2024. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of September 26, 2025; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2024-7254 actively exploited?
CVE-2024-7254 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (86th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2024-7254?
CVE-2024-7254 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2024-7254?
A fix for CVE-2024-7254 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2024-7254 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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